:: Uruguay

The Oriental Republic of Uruguay is a representative democratic
republic with a presidential system. It is a country located in
the south eastern part of South America. With an area of
approximately 180,000 square kilometers, it is home to around
3.5 million people. The capital Montevideo is the most important
city in the country, with almost 2 million inhabitants.

Uruguay is located between Argentina and Brazil. Together with
those countries mentioned and Paraguay, they are part of Mercosur –
created in 1991. Furthermore, Uruguay is member of: United Nations,
OEA, UNASUR, G77, and so on.

Uruguay is an agricultural export-oriented country, this is why
resources such as rice, soybeans, corn, livestock and so on, are
fundamental in the economy. In recent years, forest exploitation
has become very important. The main industries are: slaugtherhouses,
dairy and its derivatives, textile, paper, fertilizers, alcohol,
cement and oil refining.

Besides, service industry is of the upmost importance in the
country, which includes finances, logistics, transportation and
communications as well as the growing IT sector – particularly
software development. Moreover, Uruguay is the major per capita
exporter of software in Latin America, and the third one in
absolute terms. Tourism is another important income economic
activity in our country.

In relation to goods transportation, Uruguay offers the
International Carrasco Aiport, located in Canelones, within
the Montevideo metropolitan area. The new Air Terminal was
inaugurated on October 5, 2009. The old terminal today is a
cargo terminal.

By the River Plate it is located the Port of Montevideo,
which is our main commercial port and it is a very important
transit area for Mercosur shipments. According to Uruguayan
law, it is a “free port”, which allows cargo transit to be
transported without any customs restrictions, with no limitation
of goods storage time, allowing warehouse tasks, re-packing,
re-labeling, classification, grouping and ungrouping, consolidation,
manipulation and fractioning, and import tax exemptions.